The '''Sharpshooter''' is the sniper striking his foes from afar, destroying Zed after Zed with well-placed headshots. The Sharpshooter is the far end of the Commando-Gunslinger-Sharpshooter continuum, trading the rate and fire and mobility of the other perks for increased damage and accuracy especially at long range. The Sharpshooter is particularly adept at killing large Zeds, dishing out impressive damage with each headshots.

The '''Sharpshooter''' is the sniper striking his foes from afar, destroying Zed after Zed with well-placed headshots. The Sharpshooter is the far end of the Commando-Gunslinger-Sharpshooter continuum, trading the rate and fire and mobility of the other perks for increased damage and accuracy especially at long range. The Sharpshooter is particularly adept at killing large Zeds, dishing out impressive damage with each headshots.

The Sharpshooter is the sniper striking his foes from afar, destroying Zed after Zed with well-placed headshots. The Sharpshooter is the far end of the Commando-Gunslinger-Sharpshooter continuum, trading the rate and fire and mobility of the other perks for increased damage and accuracy especially at long range. The Sharpshooter is particularly adept at killing large Zeds, dishing out impressive damage with each headshots.

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General Information

Being a sniper by nature, the Sharpshooter mostly remains stationary while concentrating on long range engagements of lone big targets like Scrakes and Fleshpounds. As a support-type unit, they are somewhat vulnerable in close range combat and hence have to rely on their teammates quite often.

Their skill choices offer them a tradeoff between weapon power and mobility.

Each consecutive headshot with a perk weapon increases damage 10%, up to a maximum of 50%.

Increase reload speed with perk weapons.

Equipment

Dead Eye

20

Always Prepared

Reduce recoil 10% and increase head shot damage 10% when using iron sights with a perk weapon.

Carry one extra grenade and 25% more ammo for perk weapons.

Master Techniques

ZED TIME - Assassin

25

ZED TIME - Ranger

Any head shots with perk weapons have a 5% chance to trigger ZED Time. During ZED Time, increase head shot damage with perk weapons 35%.

Any head shots with perk weapons have a 5% chance to trigger ZED Time. During ZED Time, your head shots with perk weapons will stun any ZED.

Actual Stats

Always Prepared (extra grenades)

25%

Always Prepared (extra maximum spare ammo)

25%

Assassin (extra damage, only on headshots)

35%

Assassin (ZED Time chance, on each shot in the head)

5%

Ballistic Shock (stun power multiplier)

x2

Combat Ready (faster reloading)

yes

Dead Eye (extra damage, while ADS, on head shots)

10%

Dead Eye (weapon recoil multiplier)

x0.9

Marksman (player speed multiplier)

x1.1

Marksman (weapon fire interval diminution)

-25%

Rack 'em Up (countdown timer)

2s

Rack 'em Up (extra damage)

10%

Rack 'em Up (maximum headshot combo)

5

Ranger (multiplier DOES NOT stack with Ballistic Shock)

yes

Ranger (multiplier overrides effect of Ballistic Shock)

yes

Ranger (stun power multiplier, only on headshots, become)

x5

Ranger (ZED Time chance, on each shot in the head)

5%

Sniper (extra damage, while stationary)

25%

Stability (extra damage, while crouching)

30%

Stability (crouch move speed, times faster)

x1.5

Stability (reload duration while crouching, diminution)

-20%

Perk Notes

Damage modification (passive + skills): Passive damage bonus, Sniper, Stability, Rack 'em Up and Dead Eye skills affect damage of all on-perk weapons (including Knife) or on-perk damage types. Passive damage bonus and Dead Eye skill work only on headshots and act like a normal bonuses - both provide more damage to body AND head health. All damage bonuses as well affect DOT damage of the Spitfire revolver. Damage ROUNDED UP.

Passive (Recoil): Current recoil multiplier of the weapon is being decreased by up to 25%. Firstly game calculates current recoil multiplier of the weapon and then decreases it by up to 25%. Sharpshooter's passive recoil bonus works only with on-perk weapons. Recoil reduction is multiplicative with the Dead Eye skill: Recoil Mod = 1 x 0.75 x 0.9 = 0.675.

Skill (Assassin, Ranger): Each time player scores a headshot (not necessary lethal) with on-perk weapons there is a 5% chance for ZED Time to appear. Like with the other ZED Time probabilities, odds grow over time if no ZED Time events has occured recently. The same shot that triggers ZED Time also gets bonuses from either of level 25 skills (more damage or stun power).

Skill (Dead Eye): On-perk weapons only. Extra damage works only on shots in the head. Recoil reduction is multiplicative with passive bonus.

Skill (Marksman): Skill decreases refire time of the weapon by 25% which effectively increases rate of fire by 33.3%.

Skill (Rack 'em Up): Skill becomes active with the first ever shot in the head. Each time player scores a headshot skill takes 10% of the current weapon's damage, multiplies it by amount of scored headshots and adds it to the base weapon damage. Every 2 seconds headshot combo meter goes down by 1, each headshot during this time increases the meter by 1 and resets 2 seconds timer. Damage bonus as well affects knife and grenade damage.

Skill (Ranger): Stun power multiplier of this skill DOES NOT stack with the multiplier of Ballistic Shock skill, instead, during the ZED Time it overrides it (become x5 instead of x2). Skill works only on head shots.

Skill (Stability): Skill decreases time that it takes to play reload animation by 20% making reload speed 1/0.8 = 25% faster.

On-perk Weapons

The following weapons and damage types are associated with the Sharpshooter. They get damage bonuses and buffs to their attributes from the respective skills:

Strategy

You are not meant to fight all the ZEDs alone. As a "big ZED killer" you should stay at the middle of your team, preferably so you can have an overview on multiple paths and support your team by taking down lone tough targets like Sirens, Husks, Scrakes and Fleshpounds. It is strongly advised for you to not be a "lone wolf".

Aim for the head - that's what all snipers do! Having slow firing weapons with limited ammunition leaves you no room for mistakes. Good Sharpshooters always know where to aim and when to shoot. However, don't forget that with a proper skill setup, your Winchester 1894 will be a bit more forgiving as it would let you to one-shot-kill any basic ZED like Clots, Crawlers and Stalkers even on body shots.

Having a Crossbow in your arsenal is a wise choice if you plan to conserve the Freeze Grenades for the Fleshpounds. Even without Ballistic Shock, it still can stun a Scrake on headshot.

A Rail Gun setup only leaves you 6 spare blocks of weight. To improve your self-defense, try out the boomstick and a medic pistol. The boomstick will help you against a hordes of ZEDs, while the pistol can be used for taking off heads of the small ZEDs.

M99 AMR is your most powerful weapon, capable of destroying Scrakes and Fleshpounds easily. But beware, it only leaves you 3 spare blocks of weight. While it is enough to get yourself sidearm for self-defense, stay close to your team, preferably behind. As an AMR user you're not meant to deal with small ZEDs.

The Freeze Grenades are very helpful when you are fighting big ZEDs, as its explosion stops their movement and leaves them exposed to headshots. However, keep in mind that freezing an enraged Fleshpound is almost impossible.

Attack / defend, it's your choice: When in trouble - parry. That's what Mosin Nagant allows you to do. No? Then stab stab stab, luckily for you this rifle is equipped with bayonet so go out and spill the blood of them Clots in close quarters combat! And wait, that's not all - comes out it shoots bullets too!

Trivia

According to the character's favourite weapon lines, Reverend Alberts and Anton Strasser are both the Sharpshooters of the team. Other characters enjoy using the various Sharpshooter weapons as well, though only DJ Scully and Rae Higgins prefer the Rail Gun.